Editing Peter Lamborn Wilson (section)

==Life==
Wilson was born in Baltimore on October 20, 1945.<ref name="nyt">{{cite web|title=Peter Lamborn Wilson, Advocate of 'Poetic Terrorism,' Dies at 76|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/11/us/peter-lamborn-wilson-dead.html|date=June 11, 2022|work=The New York Times|last=Green|first=Penelope|accessdate=June 12, 2022}}</ref> While undertaking a classics major at [[Columbia University]], Wilson met [[Warren Tartaglia]], then introducing Islam to students as the leader of a group called the Noble Moors. Attracted by the philosophy, Wilson was initiated into the group, but later joined a group of breakaway members who founded the [[Moorish Orthodox Church of America|Moorish Orthodox Church]]. The Church maintained a presence at the [[League for Spiritual Discovery]], the group established by [[Timothy Leary]].

Appalled by the social and political climate, Wilson decided to leave the United States, and shortly after the [[assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.]], in 1968 he flew to Lebanon, later reaching India with the intention of studying [[Sufism]], but became fascinated by [[Tantra]], tracking down [[Ganesh Baba]]. He spent a month in a [[Kathmandu]] missionary hospital being treated for [[hepatitis]], and practised meditation techniques in a cave above the east bank of the [[Ganges]]. He also allegedly ingested significant quantities of cannabis.<ref name="Knight">Knight, Michael M. ''William S. Burroughs vs. The Qur'an'', Soft Skull Press, Berkley 2012, pp11-78</ref>

Wilson travelled on to Pakistan. There he lived in several places, mixing with princes, Sufis, and gutter dwellers, and moving from teahouses to opium dens. In [[Quetta]] he found "a total disregard of all government", with people reliant on family, clans or tribes, which appealed to him.<ref name="Knight" />

Wilson then moved to Iran where that he developed his scholarship. He translated classical Persian texts with French scholar [[Henry Corbin]], and also worked as a journalist at the ''Tehran Journal''. In 1974, [[Farah Pahlavi|Farah Pahlavi Empress of Iran]] commissioned her personal secretary, scholar [[Hossein Nasr|Seyyed Hossein Nasr]], to establish the [[Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy]]. Nasr offered Wilson the position of director of its English language publications, and editorship of its journal ''Sophia Perennis'', which Wilson edited from 1975 until 1978.<ref name="Knight" /> He would go on to also publish on the [[Ni'matullāhī]] Sufi Order and [[Isma'ilism]] with [[Nasrollah Pourjavady]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pourjavady |first1=Nasrollah |last2=Wilson |first2=Peter Lamborn |title=Ismā'īlīs and Ni'matullāhīs |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1595401 |journal=Studia Islamica |pages=113–135 |doi=10.2307/1595401 |date=1975|issue=41 |jstor=1595401 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Pūrǧawādī |first1=Naṣrallāh |last2=Wilson |first2=Peter Lamborn |last3=Nasr |first3=Seyyed Hossein |title=Kings of love. The poetry and history of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order |date=1978 |publisher=Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy |location=Teheran |isbn=978-0877737339}}</ref>  

Following the [[Iranian Revolution]] in 1979, Wilson lived in New York City, sharing a brownstone townhouse with [[William Burroughs]], with whom he bonded over their shared interests. Burroughs acknowledged Wilson for providing material on [[Hassan-i Sabbah]] which he used for his novel ''[[The Western Lands]]''.<ref name="Knight" />

In later life, Wilson lived in upstate New York in conditions he termed "independently poor".<ref name="nyt" /> He has been described as "a subcultural monument".<ref>Jarrett, Earnest. [http://www.brooklynrail.org/2014/06/art/hakim-bey-with-jarrett-earnest "Living Under Sick Machines: Peter Lamborn Wilson / Hakim Bey"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160825134145/http://www.brooklynrail.org/2014/06/art/hakim-bey-with-jarrett-earnest |date=2016-08-25 }}, ''The Brooklyn Rail'', 5 June 2014.</ref>

Towards the end of his life, he showed an interest in the [[Bábism|Bābī]] religion, especially in its [[Azalism|Azali]] form. This was mentioned in his two final books published in early 2022.<ref>Wilson, Peter Lamborn.[https://autonomedia.org/product/false-messiah-crypto-xtian-tracts-and-fragments/ "False Messiah: Crypto-Xtian Tracts and Fragments"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220607044302/https://autonomedia.org/product/false-messiah-crypto-xtian-tracts-and-fragments/ |date=2022-06-07 }}, ''Autonomedia/Logosophia; First edition'', 17 February 2022, pp.76-77.</ref><ref>Wilson, Peter Lamborn. [https://www.innertraditions.com/books/peacock-angel "Peacock Angel: The Esoteric Tradition of the Yezidis"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220515173352/https://www.innertraditions.com/books/peacock-angel |date=2022-05-15 }}, ''Inner Traditions'', 8 March 2022, pp.15, 17, 113, 235n4</ref>

Wilson died of heart failure on May 22, 2022, in [[Saugerties, New York]].<ref name="nyt" /><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2022/05/24/news/hakim_bey_una_delle_figure_di_spicco_della_cultura_cyberpunk_e_morto-351063565/ | title=Hakim Bey, una delle figure di spicco della cultura Cyberpunk, è morto | date=24 May 2022 | access-date=31 May 2022 | archive-date=31 May 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531151647/https://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2022/05/24/news/hakim_bey_una_delle_figure_di_spicco_della_cultura_cyberpunk_e_morto-351063565/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://ionline.sapo.pt/artigo/772297/morreu-peter-lamborn-wilson-o-ltimo-pirata | title=Morreu Peter Lamborn Wilson, o último pirata | work=ionline | access-date=2022-05-31 | archive-date=2022-05-31 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531150651/https://ionline.sapo.pt/artigo/772297/morreu-peter-lamborn-wilson-o-ltimo-pirata | url-status=live }}</ref>